Killmaster, as for 1), i use only three panels, for example ... plus i think that cwbowron is going to add more panels in the future or make them fully configurable (as to which tag they use etc.)

Right. All I'm talking about is instead of having to open one panel for artist, one panel for album, etc., just having one panel with all of them within it and having that be fully configurable (see #3)

Right. All I'm talking about is instead of having to open one panel for artist, one panel for album, etc., just having one panel with all of them within it and having that be fully configurable (see #3)

ah, i see ... you're right, though i can think of some situations which could be solved easily by having them apart. like vertical arrangement, 2x2 matrix arrangement etc. plus it's not that time consuming and cumbersome to add all of them in the layout's dialog ...

Right. All I'm talking about is instead of having to open one panel for artist, one panel for album, etc., just having one panel with all of them within it and having that be fully configurable (see #3)

ah, i see ... you're right, though i can think of some situations which could be solved easily by having them apart. like vertical arrangement, 2x2 matrix arrangement etc. plus it's not that time consuming and cumbersome to add all of them in the layout's dialog ...

I've just downloaded this plugin which looks fine.It is loaded by my Foobar2000 v0.9, listed in the "Installed Media Library Viewers", but I cannot activate it (active & configure buttons are disabled). Did I missed something?

Nevertheless, I am wondering if I could use this plugin or "playlist tree" to look for duplicates as described here.

Although i suppose the ability to add a bunch of tags to a list and then change it on the fly would be cool for people who don't want to have them all shown at once.

Maybe I didn't get the point of this plugin, but if you do that, what would be the difference with foo_uie_albumlist ? This plugin is some kind of multi-albumlist no ?

Edit: I just tried it, when I added the Title panel foobar got frozen for 2 or 3minutes (I have quite a lot of files), while it takes the database about 1 or 2 seconds to build a playlist with all my files, so I guess there could be some performance improvement there. I don't really have any use for the Title panel though but I thought you should know.Apart from that little performance problem it works well for me, but as it is I prefer foo_uie_albumlist which allow me to use my custom tags.

So, Fractal_Mortality, you need the Columns UI plugin which is not installed per default anymore with the 0.9.In case of the windows DLL, I have .NET 1.1 and 2.0 installed on my PC, so I do not have pb with missing components.

I've added some panels (context menu: Panel -> Browser [Artist] for instance)So the Browser is now activated.But I still can not add anything in "Preferences > Display > Columns UI > Layout" and in "Preferences -> Media Library", the buttons for Browser are still desactivated, so I can't change the config.

So, Fractal_Mortality, you need the Columns UI plugin which is not installed per default anymore with the 0.9.In case of the windows DLL, I have .NET 1.1 and 2.0 installed on my PC, so I do not have pb with missing components.

I've added some panels (context menu: Panel -> Browser [Artist] for instance)So the Browser is now activated.But I still can not add anything in "Preferences > Display > Columns UI > Layout" and in "Preferences -> Media Library", the buttons for Browser are still desactivated, so I can't change the config.

Ok thanks everyone, it's working... I'm just going to wait till the pluging (and all of the plugins for 0.9) are a bit more polished.

I'm able to reproduce the crash. I did it once now:I added Genre panel (%genre%) to Layout and clicked 'Apply'. Everything works.I added Artist panel (%album artist%) to Layout and clicked 'Apply'. Crash. This time with only one failure.txt, but another error: 'Runtime error: pure virtual function called.'

- went into preferences, lower-cased the header names and changed the formatting of the artist and #title panels

- went into Layout and re-added the four panels

- hit Apply, hit Save All

- crash

It gave me a crash log, if you want me to post that i will. (Don't want to clog up the thread if i don't have to.)

After restarting foobar, though, the panels appear to be working the way they should. I set my artist tag to $if(%dbartist%,%dbartist%,%artist%) (dbartist is a tag i use to basically make the album list look better) and that's working great. Everything looks awesome.

I did notice one inconsistency though. In the genre panel, tracks that don't have a genre tag show up as '<MISSING>' right under the '[All]' item. Tracks that don't have an album or title tag, though, show up as '?'. It should be one or the other, for consistency's sake.

Very trivial feature request: It'd be neat (although not life-or-death necessary) if we could change the name of the 'all' and 'missing' entries in the panels. :x

I did notice one inconsistency though. In the genre panel, tracks that don't have a genre tag show up as '<MISSING>' right under the '[All]' item. Tracks that don't have an album or title tag, though, show up as '?'. It should be one or the other, for consistency's sake.

The issue with the consistancy is because when using a "%tag%" format, the result comes directly from the formatting... if you use "tag" it checks to see how many of those tags exist and uses all of those, if none are found it uses "<MISSING>"... as a workaround, I changed the default album tags to use $if2(%artist%,<MISSING>) so that if the tag doesnt exist it will show up as MISSING too...

The issue with the consistancy is because when using a "%tag%" format, the result comes directly from the formatting... if you use "tag" it checks to see how many of those tags exist and uses all of those, if none are found it uses "<MISSING>"... as a workaround, I changed the default album tags to use $if2(%artist%,<MISSING>) so that if the tag doesnt exist it will show up as MISSING too...

Oh. Duh, i should've figured that out on my own. Thanks. :p

Don't know if the new one fixed the crash since i only got it the one time, but it seems to be working in any case.

Here's a tricky question: Is there some kind of blank character i can enter to make my 'empty' entries always appear at the top of the list? I mean, no matter what i set it to, there's always the chance that i could have a tag that begins with a parenthesis or a dollar sign or something and then the item for tracks with empty tags gets pushed down to some arbitrary spot on the list.

Is there such a blank character?

edit:Actually, never mind, i figured it out. $char(13) works, if anyone else is dealing with this issue.

in the most recent version whenever i start foobar horizontal scroll bars are shown in browser panels but they aren't actually needed...changing the width only slightly causes them to disappear but on a restart they are back again

Is it currently possible to use both "tag" and "%tag%" in the formatting? I like how "tag" lists all the artists I have in each multiple artist track, but I'd also like to sort it so that artists that have a "The " prefix can be shown in alphabetical order without taking the prefix into account.